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Martin Kuppinger is Founder and Principal Analyst at KuppingerCole. Martin wrote more than 50 IT-related books and is known as a widely-read columnist and author of technical articles and reviews in some of the most prestigious IT magazines in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. He is also a well-established speaker and moderator at seminars and congresses. His interest in Identity Management dates back to the 80ies, when he also gained considerable experience in software architecture development. Over the years, he added several other fields of research, including virtualization, cloud computing, overall IT security, and others. Having studied economies, he combines in-depth IT knowledge with a strong business perspective. MORE  |
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Dr. Horst Walther, born 1951 in Berlin, works as a management consultant and independent technical advisor for more than 30 years. His expertise focuses on the business to technology interface. At KuppingerCole he covers the domain of IAM-processes, roles, rules & policies and the management of IAM-projects. MORE |
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Prof. Dr. Sachar Paulus is Senior Analyst at KuppingerCole and at the same time CEO of a small, high-profile management consultancy for security. Besides this, he is honorary professor for Security Management at Brandenburg University of Applied Sciences. He is a member of a number of advisory boards, among others, of RISEPTIS, the Advisory Board for Research and Innovation on Security, Privacy and Trust in the Information Society. He was 8 years with SAP in leading security positions, responsible for Secure Software Development, Security Product Management, and Security of the Corporation (Chief Security Officer). MORE |
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Mike Small is Honorary Fellow Analyst at KuppingerCole. With over 40 years in the IT industry Mike's current focus is security and risk management in the Cloud. Until 2009 he worked for CA (now CA Technologies Inc) where he developed the identity and access management strategy for distributed systems. This strategy led to the developments and acquisitions that contributed to CA's IAM product line. He is a frequent speaker at IT security events around EMEA and contributor to the security press. MORE |
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Prof. Dr. Friedrich Holl is professor for office communication and administration automation, author and editor of many works in the IT Security and Safety area, director of the "Institute of Security and Safety (ISS)" at the FH Brandenburg and accredited German and European data protection expert, as well as director of the Master's degree program "Security Management" at the FH Brandenburg. In the last years he has worked on diverse projects in corporate security, PKI success criteria, functionality of emergency power supplies, etc. Besides the fields of data protection, data security and compliance he has in-depth knowledge of security management and IAM particularly in the context of public administrations and SMEs. MORE |
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For many years, Craig Burton was responsible for Novell´s strategic direction, and became well-known for his inventions, such as: the Network Operating System, Network Services Model, and Hardware Independence for Networking Software, as well as many other innovative networking services. In 1990, he founded The Burton Group, which was acquired in 2010 by Gartner Group. He has been an independent consultant and analyst specializing in Internet Infrastructure since 1997 and since 2011 he is a memeber of the KuppingerCole Team. MORE |
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Dave Kearns spent 10 years as a network manager, ending up as Information Services Manager for the former Thomas-Conrad Corporation (now part of Compaq). In 1987, he was a founding SysOp of Novell's Novell Support Connection service on Compuserve and served as the first president of the Association of NetWire SysOps. He's a past recipient of NetWare Users International's Nuggie award for "outstanding contributions." Dave was formerly Technical Editor of Networking Solutions magazine. His "Wired Windows" column appears in Network World magazine. He also writes frequently for PC World, The Novell Companion, World Wide Windows and NC World. He's written, edited and contributed to a number of books on networking and is a frequent speaker before both trade and business groups. MORE |
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Fulup Ar Foll joined KuppingerCole in 2012 as a Senior Analyst. Besides his very strong background in large scale and high performance identity and access management, as well as information security architecture, Fulup´s research focus is related to consumer and citizen identity, mobile security and to the evaluation and assessment of technology standards. Prior to joining KuppingerCole, Fulup was master architect inside Sun Microsystems global software practice and focused on the scalability of large identity federation infrastructures. Fulup worked as chief architect for many Identity and security federated projects related to telco and government, as well as for other strong Identity and security infrastructure users such as Banks and insurances. He represented the Sun software customer group inside normalisations bodies (Liberty, Kantara, OASIS, OMA, ITU), where he was an active member of identity and security related technical committees. MORE |
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Alexei Balaganski is the CTO and Analyst at KuppingerCole. After graduating with an MSc degree in Mathematics and Computer science he has worked in the IT industry for over 12 years. His experience includes software development, network administration and information security. Before joining KuppingerCole in 2007, he has participated and managed multiple IT projects including e-commerce, high-load and cloud applications. At KuppingerCole his primary areas of interest are cloud security and management, identity federation, and SSO. MORE |
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Peter Cummings is a highly sought after Identity & Access Management Specialist with a vast amount of experience in planning and implementing complex programs; in addition Peter Cummings is the founder and chairman of the worlds largest Identity & Access Management community. Peter Cummings is highly regarded as a security professional and architect; he has successfully completed several implementations and worked in the IT Security field for more than 10 years. His success stems from a unique focus around business alignment with Information Technology. Throughout his career Peter Cummings has been involved in various dynamic projects, including several very large financial related implementations. He continues to push the boundaries in innovation. MORE |
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Dr. Karsten Kinast, LL.M., Attorney at Law (Germany), is founding Partner of the Law Firm “Kinast & Partner” with an exclusive focus on Data Protection Law and IT-Law. He holds a Master of Laws Degree in European Legal Informatics and serves as external Data Protection Officer for national and multinational companies. He is founder and CEO of dataKonform that awards data protection quality seals to companies that have successfully decided to set a focus on privacy issues. Also, he is frequent author of legal publications in the field of data protection. Dr. Kinast is a certified Data Protection Officer and associate lecturer at Fresenius University of Applied Sciences with lectures in civil, copyright, media and contract law. He is a regular speaker on national and international data protection summits. In 2012, Dr. Kinast joined KuppingerCole as a Fellow Analyst and is focusing his research on Privacy and Data Protection. MORE |
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Rob Newby has covered technologies from 2-factor authentication, firewalls, proxies, load balancers, database and application firewalls through to PKI and data encryption where he now specializes, running his own consultancy back in the UK centering on data security, governance, risk management and compliance. Rob has been heavily involved in setting up governance and risk management in the UK’s largest telecoms company, and worked as an enterprise architect within Financial Services. He is currently working on the UK’s Identity and Passport Service Account with CSC. Rob studied Physics at the University of Bath in the UK, graduating with Honours in 1999. His career in Security started in 2000 when he joined a small reseller as an installation engineer on RSA and nCipher (now Thales) products. Rob holds multiple engineering certificates and was a trainer for both Vormetric and Ingrian (now Safenet). He has a CISSP since 2006 and is a member of CLAS (UK Government’s CESG Listed Adviser Scheme) since 2009, for which he is now also an assessor. MORE |
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Business Team
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Beate Minor is the chief executive officer of KuppingerCole. MORE |
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Joerg Resch, born in 1959, looks back on over 15 years of experience in Identity Management projects and their implementation in both SMUs and large corporations. For a number of years he led leadership positions in software product development and published many technical articles on a wide range of IM-related subjects. MORE |
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Rainer Boss has joined KuppingerCole in 2012 as the Chief Financial Officer. He's is looking back at a long career he had within Motorola being responsible as Director Operations and Quality for the development of new divisions in several Eastern and Western Countries within the EMEA region. MORE |
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Bettina Buthmann is the Marketing & Key Account Manager at KuppingerCole. MORE |
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Thomas Steinmayer, born in 1967, is working for more than 15 years in different areas of IT sales. In the past 10 years Identity & Access Management has been the main topic he has been working on.
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Katja Schaffrath used to work for more than 15 years in different positions and companies in the pharmaceutical industry. Experienced in marketing and sales, she has joined the Business Team of KuppingerCole in 2013. MORE |
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Levent Kara is the Office Manager at KuppingerCole. He organizes and supervises all the administrative activities that facilitate the smooth running of our office. Also he is researching markets to identify opportunities for events. MORE |
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KuppingerCole CIO GPS
The KuppingerCole CIO GPS shows the nine areas CIOs should focus on for IT Spend Optimization, Business IT/Alignment, and Strategic Procurement, when looking at GRC (Governance, Risk Management, Compliance) and Information Security. GPS stands for Governance, Privacy and Data Protection, and Security.
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KuppingerCole BII: The Business Impact Indicator
The KuppingerCole BII is a Business Impact Indicator for Information Technology. It shows the business value a particular technology or initiative can deliver, in a single and clearly laid out graphic. It complements other KuppingerCole research methodology that shows which technologies are best for achieving the targets in IT Spend Optimization, Business/IT Alignment, and Strategic Procurement.
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KuppingerCole Analyst Services
In the networked economy of the 21st century, digital identities play a key role in establishing trust, achieving security, lowering costs and making business processes more efficient. Things like Identity and Access Management (IAM) or...
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KuppingerCole Vendor Services
The market for Identity and Access Management (IAM), governance, risk management, and compliance (GRC) and cloud computing is expanding by leaps and bounds. In fact, no other segment of the IT market can boast such dynamic growth rates. At the...
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